About

I am Professor of Education and Head of Research in the Institute of Education. I oversee research and doctoral provision at the Institute, and lead on REF.

My research is in the field of social justice in education with a particular focus on race (in)equality and on the way in which different kinds of inequalities are produced and reproduced in educational spaces and by educational processes, policies, practices and discourses.

My work focuses both on areas of formal education, in particular secondary, vocational and higher education, as well as informal learning spaces such as volunteering, and non-formal learning such as public and cultural pedagogies. I am particularly interested in the ways in which subjectivities are formed and shaped through different kinds of formal and non-formal pedagogies.

Theoretically, I draw on Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies and poststructural theory, to explore the reproduction of inequality in the education system.

My research has been funded by the Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation, Hackney Council, the Skills Funding Agency, Tower Hamlets Council and the Greater London Authority. My book, ‘Judith Butler, Race and Education’ was published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Current projects:

• 2023-2025: Fellowship mentor, Emergent value: capturing the unexpected value of arts experiences. Arts and Humanities Research Council
• 2023: Principle Investigator, Being white ‘other’. Seed funding from Bath Spa University

Teaching responsibilities

Doctoral supervision

I have supervised the following completed doctoral theses:        

• ‘Locating and Exploring Muslim Consciousness in the Narratives of British Muslim Women in East London’ 2014 (Nasima Hassan)
• ‘Competency based assessment using virtual reality (VERT): Is it a realistic possibility?’ 2016 (David Flinton)
• ‘A critical analysis of the impact of action research on teachers' professional development’ 2016 (Kulvarn Atwal)
• ‘The emerging identities and ‘classroom craft’ of newly qualified teachers in the post compulsory sector’ 2017 (Warren Kidd)
• ‘Racial identity in teachers’ practice: an analysis of their development in the context of Colombia’ 2017 (Ximena Bonilla Silva)
• ‘BME postgraduate students in STEM subjects in the UK’ 2020 (Dominik Jackson-Cole)
• ‘The connection between Art School pedagogies and popular music.’ 2021 (Simon Strange)
• ‘Knowing your place: a case study discourse analysis of institutional records relating to the education of children in care 1850-1900s, in Muller’s ‘New Orphan Homes’, Bristol’ 2022 (Kate Brooks)

Current doctoral supervision

• ‘The use of discipline inclusion rooms in English secondary schools’ 2019-ongoing (Alison McIntosh)
• ‘Developing a framework of the teaching of social entrepreneurship in Higher Education’ 2020-ongoing (Anne Wylie)
• ‘Deep Impact: What effect has a reduction in the delivery of art subjects in secondary schools had on the belief that a career in the creative industries is viable post-16?’ (Helen Waldram-Tingling)
• ‘Racialised “culture wars” in English secondary schools’ 2023-ongoing (Ishtiaq Hussain)
• ‘What discourses do pre-service teachers use when discussing race?’ 2016-ongoing (Jo Byrd)

Research interests

• Race inequality in education
• Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies
• Educational subjectivities
• The work of Judith Butler
• School to work transitions and careers education
• Vocational education
• Securitisation and surveillance in education

Membership of professional bodies

• Member of the British Education Research Association (BERA)
• Member of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
• Member of the National Institute of Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC)
• Member of the editorial board for journals: Whiteness and Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, Journal of Vocational Education and Training and Jahrbuch fuer Paedagogik

Qualifications

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association
• PhD in Education
• European Masters European Masters in Intercultural Education
• BA Joint Honours German and Spanish

Recent publications

2023

Chadderton, C. and Wischmann, A. (2023) Education policy and refugees in England and Germany: racist nativism and the reproduction of white supremacy. Race, Ethnicity and Education https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2023.2255830

Chadderton, C. (2023) Covid, schooling and race in England: a case of necropolitics. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 26 (1), pp. 112-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2022.2069736

Jackson-Cole, D. and Chadderton, C. (2023) White supremacy in postgraduate education at elite universities in England: the role of the gatekeepers. Whiteness and Education, 8 (1), pp. 101-119.  10.1080/23793406.2021.2013131.

2021

Macer, M. and Chadderton, C. (2021) Reproduction of the gender regime: The military and education as state apparatuses constraining the military wife student'. Gender and Education, 33 (3), pp. 337-354 

2020

Chadderton, C. (2020) School-to-work transitions support: ‘cruel optimism’ for young people in ‘the state of insecurity’. Power and Education, 12 (2) 173–188

Chadderton, C. (2020) A longitudinal study of young women’s transitions in Tower Hamlets in an age of austerity. Report for the Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation, London

2019

Chadderton, C. (2019) Race, ethnicity and education in England. In Ward, S. and Simon, C. A student’s guide to Education Studies

Chadderton, C. (2019) Career education and guidance and race (in)equality in England. In Hooley, T., Sultana, R. Thomsen, R. (eds.) Career Guidance for Emancipation:  Reclaiming Justice for the Multitude. Routledge, pp. 81-97

2018

Chadderton, C. (2018) Judith Butler, race and education. Palgrave Macmillan

Chadderton, C. (2018) Higher Education and counter-terrorism in the state of exception: The case of England. In Salomon, D., Springer, J. and Wischmann, A. (eds.) Jahrbuch fur Paedagogik 2017: Paedagogik in Zeiten von Krieg und Terror, pp. 161-176. Berlin: Peter Lang

Chadderton, C. (2018) Towards a research framework for race in education: critical race theory and Judith Butler. In Youdell, D. (ed.) Judith Butler and education. Routledge

Chadderton, C. (2018) School surveillance: primary and secondary schools. In Arrigo, B. A. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. Sage